Can a place of business be a home? Absolutely yes, if it is a bookstore, and, specifically a special bookstore on Mercer Island, Washington. This weekend Island Books celebrates forty years of years of educating, welcoming and warming a whole community. Congratulations to Roger and Nancy Page for being there for all of us, making it through very tough times for all local booksellers.
May there be many more years!
You can write them to add your congratulations at islandbooks.seanet.com, or sign up for informative and free newsletters about books at www.mercerislandbooks.com.
This poem was written, appropriately, with Karen Neff.
Secomd Home
The calendar says it’s forty years
but that depends on how you count.
For us, this place is only ten –
a decade of expanding life –
opening new worlds,
forming new friends.
For others it’s older, or young as yesterday.
Add them up and we celebrate hundreds,
maybe thousands, of years of pleasure.
Islands are insular places, and yet
this island of books
brings us together.
A merging of words, ideas, and people,
mingling here where all are welcome.
How lucky we are and always will be
to live a part of our lives in this place,
where books lead us to pages,
and Pages lead us to books.
What a lovely poem written about a place that you feel like is home
to you, it must be filled with so many good memories and the people
who owns the bookstore must be really nice. Your poem is commemorative of the good times and them also they should be proud
of it. It does feel good to be able to relfect back on good times,
places and people. especially during the times we are living in now.
Wonderful poem and great tribute. Many years ago, I tried to set up a relationship with a local, family-owned bookstore. I didn't make much effort being so busy and limited in transportation. Now I wish I had made that connection.
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to you, it must be filled with so many good memories and the people
who owns the bookstore must be really nice. Your poem is commemorative of the good times and them also they should be proud
of it. It does feel good to be able to relfect back on good times,
places and people. especially during the times we are living in now.
So many bookstores are disappearing across the landscape because books are not selling in paper form like they used to. Such is the way of progress. In time, I believe that these bookstores that do remain will become more profitable because paper books will become antiques for the value of their presence rather than their content. Content will be so readily available on the Internet--it almost is already--that paper books will take on another aspect as artifacts.
Ron